Windows 10: Hard Drive 55% fragmented. Problem?

Discus and support Hard Drive 55% fragmented. Problem? in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; Hi there In nearly 25 years of using Windows I can honestly say I've NEVER found ANY SIGNIFICANT improvement with defragging HDD's. However if... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by WizardIL, Sep 21, 2016.

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  1. COUNTMIKE
    CountMike New Member

    Hard Drive 55% fragmented. Problem?


    Right, that's how I feel about it too. One thing though, ever since W7 sp1 fragmentation of disks is very low, couple of percent maybe. I had 2 HDDs ever since than until I had to change them few month ago and they had 1 or 2% of fragmentation but I also had few HDDs coming from some other computers and were heavily fragged, practically 90% (don't know why or how) and good defragging with optimization helped them a lot. They were clanging and buzzing like crazy before defragging them. Did I mention that auto defrag is turned off ?
     
    CountMike, Sep 21, 2016
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  2. EDTITTEL
    EdTittel Win User

    Good point, Jimbo and CountMIke! I also know some people who prefer to wipe a heavily fragmented disk and restore from a (non-image) backup because they observe that it lays all files out on disk sequentially (or least, as sequentially as running an OS, a file system, and all the background tasks will allow) as the restore proceeds.
    --Ed--
     
    EdTittel, Sep 21, 2016
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  3. WIZARDIL
    WizardIL Win User
    Hard drive now 11% fragmented. He will do a clean install when personal files are moved.
     
    WizardIL, Apr 4, 2018
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